Tag Archive for: Andrew Laird

Why We Should Stop Being “Resilient”
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Millions of people are working excessive hours, which has been normalised to the point that burnout has become commonplace.
All of this raises two questions for me:
Why are we working so hard that so many of us are burning out?
What’s the solution?

How to Make Money Without Getting Consumed by It
Just about everyone I speak to (myself included) feels that way—that no matter how long we’ve been working, our pay seems never quite enough. “If I could just get paid that little bit more,” we think.

How to Rely on God in the Workplace
You don’t have to be in the workplace for too long before challenges come your way. A difficult colleague, a demanding boss, an overwhelming workload.
Hardships steer us to rely on God, and to ask, “What can God do?” instead of “What can I do?”.

3 Things to Get Right When Work Feels Meh
It’s wet and grey outside. You’re staring at your screen, the blinking cursor the only movement on the page for the last few minutes. You’ve got to do that thing you’ve been putting off for a while, but you’re not feeling inspired at all.

4 Ways to Handle Pressures to Conform at Work
I was only 23 when I landed my dream job, working for a major commercial radio newsroom in Sydney. I’d only been in the job for a short time before I began to discover how difficult this might be as a Christian.

Is it Okay for a Christian to be Ambitious?
Ambition.
It’s a word that can cause great angst amongst Christians. And for good reason. We often associate it with a “win at all costs”, “stab your competition in the back” mentality, especially when it comes to the workplace.

6 Ways to Set Our Minds on Christ During a Busy Workday
Christians are to be people who think differently, who have a spiritual (Romans 8:5-6) or heavenly mindset (Colossians 3:2). We give our mind to how we can worship God and put the needs of others before our own in all the decisions of life, rather than the selfish pursuits of the “flesh”.

3 Ways to Love Your Unlovely Colleagues
Sacrificial love is hard, even when it is directed towards someone we truly love.
But loving someone we don’t love—someone who makes our life miserable and difficult, well, that feels almost impossible at times!

3 Priorities to Take to Work This Year
A new year often brings with it a renewed focus (and maybe even resolutions) for how we want to live differently this year.
But how much of your thinking about the new year is related to your work?